Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDER
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Chance is a second master.
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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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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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