In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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In wine there is health.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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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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