In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief 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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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