Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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.
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Chance is a second master.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Not a day without a line.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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