Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Home is where the heart is.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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