Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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