In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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