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.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Chance is a second master.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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