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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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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 citadel of sense perception.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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