Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Chance is a second master.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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.
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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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