The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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In wine there is health.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Chance is a second master.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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