No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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