It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Home is where the heart is.
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