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.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Home is where the heart is.
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