Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Wine 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.
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Not a day without a line.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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