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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Not a day without a line.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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