We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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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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