The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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In wine there is health.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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