Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Chance is a second master.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Not a day without a line.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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