The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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