Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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