Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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