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.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Chance is a second master.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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