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.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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No one is wise at all times.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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