How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER
Lust 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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In wine there is health.
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Lust 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.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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