The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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 brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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