This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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