Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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