Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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In wine there is health.
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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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