The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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