In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Not a day without a line.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Chance is a second master.
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