The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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