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.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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