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Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.


Pliny the Elder

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CATO THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who is brave is free.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Where the fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which i...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He has committed the crime who profits by it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) One crime has to be concealed by another.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He that does good to another does good also to himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but whe...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) For greed all nature is too little.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)