Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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