In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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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 is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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