Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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 these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Man 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.
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