Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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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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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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