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.
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 best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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