Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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