It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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