In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERMan is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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 only certainty is uncertainty
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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