The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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