We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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 do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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