The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDER
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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
PLINY THE ELDER