The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERBetter do nothing than do ill.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Home is where the heart is.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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