True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Not a day without a line.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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