It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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