Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDER
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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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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In wine there is health.
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