Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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In wine there is health.
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