Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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