Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Home is where the heart is.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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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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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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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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