It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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 best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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