Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERWine 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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In wine there is health.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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