Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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