Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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