Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Not a day without a line.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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