A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Not a day without a line.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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