When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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