Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Chance is a second master.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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