Human nature craves novelty.
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More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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