This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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