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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

Pliny the Elder

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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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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.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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