The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDERChance is a second master.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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