It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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A 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.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Chance is a second master.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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