We live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In wine there is health.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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