Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In wine there is health.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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