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 ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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