Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDERAs 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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