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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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