It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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