The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERAccustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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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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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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