The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Chance is a second master.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In wine there is health.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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