Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Chance is a second master.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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