No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERAs 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Chance is a second master.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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