Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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