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.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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