Pliny the Elder Quotes

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Evil Goodness Philosophy
Home is where the heart is.
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Heart Home One Liner
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Better Common Disease Evil Heath Improve Vino Wine
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Crime Expense Nation Reason Sanity Wine
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Alone Earth Move Remain
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
Not a day without a line.
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Day Line One Liner
In wine there is health.
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Health One Liner Wine
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Death Goodness Human Life Short
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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Aspiration Darkness Live Measurement Reach
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man Natural Novelty Yearn
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Certain Philosophy Unknown
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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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
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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Deity Kind Laughter Man Power Regard Toy Worth
Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Fond Human Nature Novelty One Liner
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Country Decline Manhood Ourselves Youth
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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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Business Plan Profit
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Inferior
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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Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Death Evil God Himself Life Man
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man Weep
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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