As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Truth comes out in wine.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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