On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Not a day without a line.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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No one is wise at all times.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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