We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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