Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDERThe great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of 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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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