"When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee." — Pliny the Elder
"When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee."
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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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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 Collapse Quotes
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the…
— Irving Babbitt
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You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on…
— Glenn Beck
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to…
— Jan Brewer
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
— Graydon Carter
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of…
— M. Scott Peck
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When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
— Terence McKenna
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When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are…
— Sun Tzu
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
— Sun Tzu
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