An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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In wine there is health.
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