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.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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