Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Not a day without a line.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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