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.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Chance is a second master.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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 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 brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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