Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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