Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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