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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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