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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny the Elder

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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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