Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Chance is a second master.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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