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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late and again, that everything must be done at its proper season while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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No one is wise at all times.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
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