War should neither be feared nor provoked.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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As 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.
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