Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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