Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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