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Pliny The Elder Inspirational Quotes (71)

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All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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No one is wise at all times.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late and again, that everything must be done at its proper season while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
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