Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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