The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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