The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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