Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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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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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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