There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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