In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERAs touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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In wine there is health.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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