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.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Not a day without a line.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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