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?
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In wine there is health.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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