The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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 wine, there’s truth.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Chance is a second master.
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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 live by reposing trust in each other.
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Not a day without a line.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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