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 ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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