Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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