Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERWine 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In wine there is health.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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