The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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 only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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