It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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In wine there is health.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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