No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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In wine there is health.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Not a day without a line.
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