The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Human nature craves novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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