It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDEROur civilization depends largely on paper.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Chance is a second master.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No one is wise at all times.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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