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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Chance is a second master.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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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 only certainty is uncertainty
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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