Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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