A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Not a day without a line.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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