Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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 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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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