Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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