Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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No one is wise at all times.
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