True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In wine there is health.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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