It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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 that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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