Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERBut with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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