We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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