Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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In wine there is health.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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