The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No one is wise at all times.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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