Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In wine there is health.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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