The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired 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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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