Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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