Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDER
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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