The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERMen are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In wine there is health.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Not a day without a line.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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