There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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