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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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