There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERNature 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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