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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Chance is a second master.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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