We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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