The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Home is where the heart is.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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In wine there is health.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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