Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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