There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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Truth comes out in wine.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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