Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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