On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Home is where the heart is.
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