It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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