Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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