Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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