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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

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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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In wine there is health.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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