Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In wine there is health.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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