The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
PLINY THE ELDERChance is a second master.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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