Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In wine there is health.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Chance is a second master.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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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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