Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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