The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERTo laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Chance is a second master.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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