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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Pliny the Elder

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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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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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No one is wise at all times.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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