The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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