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.
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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Home is where the heart is.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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