Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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