Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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