In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only certainty is uncertainty
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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No one is wise at all times.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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