Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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