A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out 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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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