Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDER
Many dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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?
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Chance is a second master.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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 these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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