No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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