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 ELDERAs 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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.
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Not a day without a line.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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