Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERNow, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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