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.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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