It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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