We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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