The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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