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

Pliny the Elder

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
PLINY THE ELDER

Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER

Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDER

Charm Object Possession Pursuit
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER

Belief Emotion Entertain Number Purpose Relation Touch Trust
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Business Plan Profit
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER

Conscious Envy Inferior
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
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

Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
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.
PLINY THE ELDER

Compare Emotion Former Frustate
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDER

Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDER

Dare Heart Mood Nature One Liner Reveal Speak Truth Wine
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
PLINY THE ELDER

Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
Hope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDER

Dream Faith Hope Men Success Work
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDER

Man Natural Novelty Yearn

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