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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Not a day without a line.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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