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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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