In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDERI 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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