On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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