The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Not a day without a line.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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