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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.

Pliny the Elder

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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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