"Suicide is a privilege of man which deity…" — Pliny the Elder
"Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess."
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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More Deities Quotes
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
— Francis Bacon
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
— John Henrik Clarke
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We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason,…
— Louis Agassiz
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
— Ovid
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