Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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