Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Adaptation

Causes

Moral

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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.

Cooking

Food

Sea

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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.

Buyers

Judgment

Reflection

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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Evil

Granted

Men

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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Death

Human Life

Sovereign

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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.

Hands

Overcoming

Practice

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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.

Men

Poison

Water

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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

Advice

Secure

Way

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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.

Men

Suicidal

Suicide

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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Certain

Men

Seems

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