A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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