Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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