Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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 time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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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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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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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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