Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERBut with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Not a day without a line.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of 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 only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In wine there is health.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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