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.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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