In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Chance is a second master.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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In wine there is health.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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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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