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.
PLINY THE ELDERWine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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