We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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