Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
PLINY THE ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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