The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No one is wise at all times.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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