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.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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