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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.

Pliny the Elder

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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Chance is a second master.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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In wine there is health.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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