Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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 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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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No one is wise at all times.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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