Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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In wine there is health.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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