True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERLust 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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