Human nature craves novelty.
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Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERAs touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
PLINY THE ELDERI 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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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