Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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