The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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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