Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Not a day without a line.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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In wine there is health.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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