The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Home is where the heart is.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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In wine there is health.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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