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.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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 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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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