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.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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In wine there is health.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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