It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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 most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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