Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Chance is a second master.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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