An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only certainty is uncertainty
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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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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In wine there is health.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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