It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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