Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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 great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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