There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Home is where the heart is.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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 wine there is health.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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 great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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