Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Chance is a second master.
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