The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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In wine there is health.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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