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.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Not a day without a line.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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