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In wine, there’s truth.

Pliny the Elder

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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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As 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.
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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 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.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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