The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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In wine there is health.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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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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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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No one is wise at all times.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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’s truth.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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