Chance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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