The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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