Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine there is health.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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