Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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