The happier the moment the shorter.
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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In wine there is health.
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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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