Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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