It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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In wine, there’s truth.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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