Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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