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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Pliny the Elder

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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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In wine there is health.
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Health One Liner Wine

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