The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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