Home is where the heart is.
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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round 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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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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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In 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.
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