Chance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In wine there is health.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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 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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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