The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Home is where the heart is.
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