In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDER
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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No one is wise at all times.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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 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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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