We live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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 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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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