In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Home is where the heart is.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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