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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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