As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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