A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERIn time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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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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