When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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In wine there is health.
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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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