It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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 which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Not a day without a line.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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