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.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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