We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDEROur youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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