Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERI 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Chance is a second master.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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