The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERThe most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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.
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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