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.
PLINY THE ELDERMan naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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