In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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