Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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