"Let not things, because they are common, enjoy……" — Pliny the Elder
"Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration."
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Pliny the Elder
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71 Quotes by Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder has 71 quotes on this site.
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language…
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head;…
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to…
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The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least…
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More Common Quotes
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and…
— Karen Armstrong
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
— Dan Aykroyd
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire…
— Stephen Baldwin
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