Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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