Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Not a day without a line.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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