Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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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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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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