On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERTo laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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 certainty is uncertainty
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In wine there is health.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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