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?
PLINY THE ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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