Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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