We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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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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In wine there is health.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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