When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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