No one is wise at all times.
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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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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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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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Not a day without a line.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In wine there is health.
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