On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In wine there is health.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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