in vino veritas
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From Latin in (“in”) + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum (“wine”) + vēritās (“truth”). Thus, “in wine there is truth”. First attested, as volgoque veritas iam attributa vino est, in the Naturalis Historia (XIV, 141) of Pliny the Elder.
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in wine, there is truth — see in wine, there is truth