The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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