Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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