There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In wine there is health.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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