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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Pliny the Elder

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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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