I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Chance is a second master.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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