In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERMan 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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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