The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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