To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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