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His only fault is that he has no fault.

Pliny the Elder

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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Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
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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Aspiration Darkness Live Measurement Reach
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Dishes Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
PLINY THE ELDER

Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Better Common Disease Evil Heath Improve Vino Wine
Better do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDER

Action Better Karma Sick
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Creature Entirely Found Nature Nowhere Small Smallest Tiny
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDER

Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER
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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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
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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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Believe Math Odd Power Solve Strong Trust
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDER

Believe Desire God Gratification Hope Lust Men Wish

His only fault is that he has no fault.

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