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.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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