The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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