Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERAs touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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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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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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