A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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