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.
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Chance is a second master.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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