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Pliny the Elder

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER

Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDER

Day Line One Liner
We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Affection Close Life Live One Liner
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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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDER

Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Common Consideration Enjoy Happy Positive Mindset Share
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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Aspiration Darkness Live Measurement Reach
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDER

Ability Brave Country Military Powerful Protect Sacrifice
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDER

Advice Follow Help Neighbour Relation Secure Way
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Bad Conscience Emotion Fame Men Name
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Dream Evil Heath Improve Morning Proverb Wine

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