True happiness consists in being considered deserving 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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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 best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Not a day without a line.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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