Human nature craves novelty.
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 has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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