Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Not a day without a line.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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