Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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