Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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 these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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