Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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 listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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 is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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