The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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