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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Not a day without a line.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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