There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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