There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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