This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It 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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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