It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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 valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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No one is wise at all times.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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