As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, 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?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine there is health.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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