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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Chance is a second master.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine there is health.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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