Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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