Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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