Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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