An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDERMan 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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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