We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERThe perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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