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In wine there is health.

Pliny the Elder

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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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Alone Certain Fix Garden Recover Remain Stir Temporary
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER
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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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Business Plan Profit
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
In wine, there’s truth.
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Dare Heart Mood Nature One Liner Reveal Speak Truth Wine
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Equality Irony One Liner Reality
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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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