When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDERAccustom 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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