As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
PLINY THE ELDERIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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