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

Pliny the Elder

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In wine there is health.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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