The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERI 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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.
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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.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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