Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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