Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Home is where the heart is.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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