True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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