Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In wine there is health.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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