The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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In wine there is health.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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