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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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No one is wise at all times.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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