It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Not a day without a line.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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