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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Chance is a second master.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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