Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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It 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.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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