Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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