True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERIn time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Human nature craves novelty.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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