Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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