Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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