The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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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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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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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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