Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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