Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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