The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In wine there is health.
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