It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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