Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Truth comes out in wine.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine there is health.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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