Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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