It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Chance is a second master.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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