Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERMen are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Truth comes out in wine.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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