Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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In wine there is health.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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