It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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