Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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