There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Home is where the heart is.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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No one is wise at all times.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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