It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Chance is a second master.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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