There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDERCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In wine there is health.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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