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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Pliny the Elder

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDER

Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDER

Accident Discover Found Life Risk Trival Valuable
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
PLINY THE ELDER

Compare Emotion Former Frustate
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
PLINY THE ELDER

Deity Kind Laughter Man Power Regard Toy Worth
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Aspiration Darkness Live Measurement Reach
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER

Complex Difference Envy Frustrate Inferior Passion Result
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
PLINY THE ELDER

Diamond Gold Men Opportunity Shine Struggle
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
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 ELDER

Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER

Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
PLINY THE ELDER

Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
Not a day without a line.
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Day Line One Liner
Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER

Heart Home One Liner
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER

Deep Dream Effect Hard Work Impossible Inspiring Motivation Success

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