The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERAccustom 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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 only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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