We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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