True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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