True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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