As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Not a day without a line.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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