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Wine 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.

Pliny the Elder

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDER

Advice Buyer Deep Disagree Judgment Query Reflection Think
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDER

Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDER
Chance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDER

Chance Master One Liner Opportunity Story Success Time
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER

Certain Philosophy Unknown
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDER

Act Eye Farmer Farming Feeding Fertilizer Income Master One Liner
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Business Plan Profit
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDER

Civilization Decade Deserve Glory History Life Read Shine Writing
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDER

Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
PLINY THE ELDER

Country Friendship Generous Man Myself

Wine 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.

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