Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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