Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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 has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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