As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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