True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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In wine there is health.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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