Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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