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.
PLINY THE ELDER
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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