When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
PLINY THE ELDERIn time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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