It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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No one is wise at all times.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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 lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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