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 ELDERThe 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDER
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