Occupation: Author Birth: 23 Death: August 25, 79
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea….
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations..
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas).
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas)..
There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save….
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it..
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees f….
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good..
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others..
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by mois….
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fir….
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber..
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration..
His only fault is that he has no fault..
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves..
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others..
The only certainty is uncertainty.
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..
Human nature craves novelty..
And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes be….
How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?.