Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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 wine there is health.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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