The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Home is where the heart is.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The brain 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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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