It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The 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.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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