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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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Failure, Adversity, Darkness

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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

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Exercise, Land, Mind

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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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Dream, Hope, Men

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Home is where the heart is.

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Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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Matter, Uncertain, Certainty

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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

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Marriage, Education, Goal

"The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.

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Nothing is so unequal as equality.

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Equality

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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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Envy, Inferiority, Conscious

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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

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Sympathy, Suicide, Men

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

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Past, Oblivion, Over It

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No one is wise at all times.

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Wise, Wisdom, All Time

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Historia Naturalis, VII. 41. 2, 1922.

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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

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Found, Smallest, Creatures

Pliny (the Elder.) (1997). “Natural History: Books 8-11”, Loeb Classical Library

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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

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Wine, Kind, Drink

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In wine, there's truth.

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Wine

Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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Better do nothing than do ill.

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Ill

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From the end spring new beginnings.

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Spring, New Beginnings, Ends

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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

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Men, Names, Conscience

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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

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Men, Training, Taught

'Historia Naturalis' bk. 7, ch. 4

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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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Courage, Grief, Adversity

"Letters, vol. 2". Book by Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth and Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson, Book VIII, Letter 17, 6, 1935.

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Many dishes bring many diseases.

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Disease, Dishes

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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

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Wine, Insanity, Reason

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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

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Profit, Folly, Plans

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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

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Men, Knows

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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

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Writing, Civilization, Glory

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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

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Eye, Farming, Masters

"Natural History".

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Died: August 25, 79
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