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.
PLINY THE ELDERIn time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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In wine there is health.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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