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Pliny The Elder Inspirational Quotes (71)

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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Hope is a working-man's dream.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
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