Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDER
PLINY THE ELDER
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Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder No book so bad but some part may be of use.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder 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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Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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