No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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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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Home is where the heart is.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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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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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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