Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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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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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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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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