The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERI would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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