Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDERMan 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Not a day without a line.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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