True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Not a day without a line.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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