Not a day without a line.
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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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