Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Chance is a second master.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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