Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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