Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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In wine there is health.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Chance is a second master.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Home is where the heart is.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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