No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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 brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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