In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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