A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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