The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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