No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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