Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Not a day without a line.
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