….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, 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?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Chance is a second master.
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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 happier the moment the shorter.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Not a day without a line.
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In wine there is health.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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