Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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 naturally yearns for novelty.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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