The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERChance is a second master.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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