It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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