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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny the Elder

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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Audacity Bold Challenge Learn Men Nature
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDER

Democracy Economy Income Life Liquid Money
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
PLINY THE ELDER

Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER

Adversity Men Misfortune Nature Possible Privilege Sympathy
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER

Belief Emotion Entertain Number Purpose Relation Touch Trust
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDER

Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Citizen Class Courage Hard Work Life Men Soldier Success
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDER

Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Adversity Courage Creativity Fear Grief Happen Overcome
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDER

Alone Earth Move Remain
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDER

Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother

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