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 ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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In wine there is health.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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