Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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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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