When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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