No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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 has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Chance is a second master.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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