In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Chance is a second master.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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No one is wise at all times.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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