True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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