Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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Not a day without a line.
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In wine there is health.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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