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.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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 a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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