The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERAs for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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 or not, are only amusements.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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 short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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