Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Chance is a second master.
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In wine there is health.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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