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.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. - Pliny The Elder
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny The Elder
Home is where the heart is. - Pliny The Elder
Home is where the heart is.
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line. - Pliny The Elder
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. - Pliny The Elder
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
In wine, there's truth. - Pliny The Elder
In wine, there's truth.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. - Pliny The Elder
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. - Pliny The Elder
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Nothing is so unequal as equality. - Pliny The Elder
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures. - Pliny The Elder
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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