A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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