How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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