Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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