As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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