It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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