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.
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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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