Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Chance is a second master.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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