A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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