Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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