Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDERWine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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