Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
PLINY THE ELDERWe live by reposing trust in each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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