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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

Pliny the Elder

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Deep Easy Honor Motivation Obligation Important Strong
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Complex Difference Envy Frustrate Inferior Passion Result
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
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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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Alone Certain Fix Garden Recover Remain Stir Temporary
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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
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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Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
There is always something new out of Africa.
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Experience Explore Freedom New Result Rich Success Trust
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
PLINY THE ELDER

Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER

Heart Home One Liner
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Adversity Courage Creativity Fear Grief Happen Overcome
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 ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDER

Audacity Bold Challenge Learn Men Nature
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDER
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Equality Irony One Liner Reality
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness

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