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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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Afar, Neglect

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• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Training, Taught

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 7, ch. 4

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• Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Life, Nature, Men

  "Historia Naturalis", VII. 51. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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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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  Hands, Practice, Overcoming

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• Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

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  Latin, Lines, Dies

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• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

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  Believe, Men, Lust

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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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  Men, Certain, Seems

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• There is always something new out of Africa.

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  Something New

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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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  Reputation, Shameful, Loses

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• There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

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  Latin, Evil, Latin Proverb

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• The happier the moment the shorter.

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  Happiness, Moments

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• The only certainty is uncertainty

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  Decision, Decision Making, Certainty

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• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

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  Men, Challenges, Audacity

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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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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  Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

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• Many dishes bring many diseases.

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  Disease, Dishes

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• When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

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  Fall, Desert, Building

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 8, ch. 103

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• Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

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  Simple, Meat, Disease

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• God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

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  Past, Oblivion, Over It

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• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

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  Advice, Way, Secure

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.853, Delphi Classics

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• Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

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  Sympathy, Suicide, Men

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• Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

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  Strong, Honor, Obligation

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• We live by reposing trust in each other.

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  Live By

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• The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

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  Men, Knows

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• True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

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  Happiness, True Happiness, Deserving

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• The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

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  Desire, Gratification, Knows

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