Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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