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 ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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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 brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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