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.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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 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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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