The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERAs 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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 most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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