Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
PLINY THE ELDER
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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