Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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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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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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