Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERChance is a second master.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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