Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In wine there is health.
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