In wine there is health.
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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Not a day without a line.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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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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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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