The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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 listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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