His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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