As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
PLINY THE ELDERIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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