Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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