Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERLust 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Not a day without a line.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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