We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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 happier the moment the shorter.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Truth comes out in wine.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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No one is wise at all times.
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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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