Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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 depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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