I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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 has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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