I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
PLINY THE ELDERIn 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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 happier the moment the shorter.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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