We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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