Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDER
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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