Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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