Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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