Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Chance is a second master.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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