We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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