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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Pliny the Elder

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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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.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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