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Truth comes out in wine.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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