In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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