How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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 always something new out of Africa.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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