The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Chance is a second master.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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