Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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