A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Indeed, 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?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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