Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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