Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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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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