Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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No one is wise at all times.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The 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.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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