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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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