Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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