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 ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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