War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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In wine there is health.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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