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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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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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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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