The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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