Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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