Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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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 happier the moment the shorter.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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