Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Home is where the heart is.
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