An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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?
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In wine there is health.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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