No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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