We live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In wine there is health.
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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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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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 the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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