Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Not a day without a line.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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