Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDERNow, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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