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.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Chance is a second master.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Not a day without a line.
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