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 ELDERA god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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