We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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