From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Not a day without a line.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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