Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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