It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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 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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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