Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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 disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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