Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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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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Home is where the heart is.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Not a day without a line.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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