There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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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