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From the end spring new beginnings.

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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
Plinius
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the Elder Pliny
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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