In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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