There is always something new out of Africa.
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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Chance is a second master.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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