Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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