The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Not a day without a line.
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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