Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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