“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.”
Book XVIII, sec. 31.
Naturalis Historia
“It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.”
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Pliny the Elder
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Natural History
Book XIV, sec. 141.
Naturalis Historia
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Context: When it has become silly to suppose that the role of our government should be to "seek balance," then count me with the silly, for that means that this has become quite serious indeed. If it should be obvious to everyone that the government does not seek balance, that the government is simply the tool of the most powerful lobbyists, that the idea of holding the government to a different standard is absurd, that the idea of demanding of the government that it speak truth and not lies is just naïve, then who have we, the most powerful democracy in the world, become?