Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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