Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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