Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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