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 listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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