In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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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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Not a day without a line.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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