The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In wine there is health.
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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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