The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Chance is a second master.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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