Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERMan 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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