In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDER
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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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