How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Not a day without a line.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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