No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERWe live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Not a day without a line.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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