Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERBut with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Not a day without a line.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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