Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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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.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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