On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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In wine there is health.
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