On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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No one is wise at all times.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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