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.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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