Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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