Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In wine there is health.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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