It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking 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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In wine there is health.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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