In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
PLINY THE ELDERWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Not a day without a line.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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