We live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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In wine there is health.
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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?
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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