No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER
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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No one is wise at all times.
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Accustom 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.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In wine there is health.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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