How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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