No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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 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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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