Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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