The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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