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.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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