The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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