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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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.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERI 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.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDERWine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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