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?
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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In wine there is health.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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