The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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