Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDERLust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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 desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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