We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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 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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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