The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERAs for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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