Chance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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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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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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Not a day without a line.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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No one is wise at all times.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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