True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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In wine there is health.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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