Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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In wine there is health.
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