Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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It 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.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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