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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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