How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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