Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERNature 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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In wine there is health.
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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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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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