Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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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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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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