It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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