The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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