"A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment."
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Pliny the Elder quotes (page 6 of 7)
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"Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother."
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"The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents."
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"We live by reposing trust in each other."
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"The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure.""
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"Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding."
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"And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it."
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"We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming."
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"In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb."
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"The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it."
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"The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils."
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"Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy."
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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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"Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work."
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"Many dishes bring many diseases."
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"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"
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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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"It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it."
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"Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible."
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"Human nature craves novelty."
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