A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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