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.
PLINY THE ELDERWe live by reposing trust in each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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