The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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