Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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