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Men Quotes by Pliny the Elder
- With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
- Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
- The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
- Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
- The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil…
- The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
- Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
- The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass…
- 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…
- Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- 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.
- No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
- Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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