Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In wine there is health.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Home is where the heart is.
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