Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDERAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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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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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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