No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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