Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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