It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERIt is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Not a day without a line.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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