The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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