On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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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.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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