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.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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