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.
PLINY THE ELDERNo man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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