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Hope is a working-man's dream.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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