Lust 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.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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In wine there is health.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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