In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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