Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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No one is wise at all times.
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Chance is a second master.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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