In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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